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April 27, 2022 
May Day: Calling all workers
This May Day is much more than an annual celebration where workers take the opportunity to get together. It’s a key event for the labour…
Decent work
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April 25, 2022
Building the May 1 province-wide action in Ontario
The pandemic has supersized inequality and inequity in Ontario. In the May Day tradition of fighting for a better world, we should aim to use this May Day to fight for a better Ontario for all, to boost the confidence of all those wanting to fight back against the bosses and the politicians who are fomenting racism and putting profits before people.
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April 21, 2022
Pandemic prescription: Fight for decent work
As we enter the 6th wave of COVID, the Ford government has lifted restrictions, watched infections rise and provided no protections for workers. This has…
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April 5, 2022
Del Duca’s regional living wage plan is a step backwards for Ontario’s workers
We shouldn’t embrace Del Duca’s vague regional living wage promise that in practice will trade off gains of social programs for wages, divide rather than unite workers, and allow employers to exploit a more fractured ESA. We need to keep building the decent work movement, to fight for a $20 minimum wage in every region and stronger employment standards for all.
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March 16, 2022
Ford’s Bill 88 delivers for Uber
If we want to seriously address workers’ rights in the gig economy, the first thing we need to do is ensure workers have access to the full rights and benefits that are afforded to other workers under the Employment Standards Act. Anything short of this leaves gig workers behind and threatens to erode employment standards for all workers.
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February 18, 2022
Workers in Nova Scotia demand justice
Two years into the pandemic – with all the risks of unsafe work conditions, lost pay, and job precarity continuing to fall disproportionately on low-income…
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February 8, 2022
Ford’s Bill 124 is an attack on women workers
Bill 124 must be challenged, and not just in the courts. If it is allowed to stand, Ford will continue to illegally infringe on public sector workers’ rights to collectively bargain, which disproportionately impacts women workers.
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January 28, 2022
Gig workers deserve real labour rights, not backroom deals
Less than 12 hours after co-sponsoring a labour-led discussion on the rights of gig workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) announced it had…
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January 26, 2022
Ontario workers need paid sick days, CERB, and status for all
Entering year three of the pandemic, case counts have exploded, admissions to hospitals are rising, ICUs are filling up and our public services are at…
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December 8, 2021
Overworked and underpaid: CAA workers on strike
Workers at five Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) stores in southern Ontario have been on strike since October 29. Workers are striking in London, Waterloo, Kitchener,…
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November 19, 2021
Ford’s Bill 27 doesn’t work for workers
Over the last several months Doug Ford’s Conseravtive government in Ontario has been busy trying to give itself a makeover. Ontarians were treated to a…
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November 5, 2021
Earth to Houston, minimum wage jobs are real jobs
Yesterday in the Nova Scotia legislature the newly-elected Progressive Conservative Premier Tim Houston stated that he will not raise the minimum wage to $15 an…